Bitcoin price (BTC) plummeted sharply in the last two days following Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s criticism regarding the cryptocurrency markets. The largest coin traded at around the $ 9,000 level early today, down almost $ 1,000 from Sunday’s high of $ 9,900. Altcoins fell at a high mid-single-digit rate in the last two days, pulling the total cryptocurrency market ...

Tumbling off their bus and into the glaring afternoon sun in the West Bank town of Ramallah, the US tourists assemble before Yasser Arafat’s marble tomb and hear two vastly different takes on the former Palestinian leader. Standing to the left of the tomb, Husam Jubran, their Palestinian guide, describes who Mr. Arafat was for Palestinians: a charismatic freedom fighter ...

When things go bump in the night, many of us try not to fear the worst. SEE ALSO: Terrifying video shows a bear and her two cubs following a man on a trail But one chap’s tale of scary dreams and strange nighttime happenings in his apartment may make you rethink blaming those weird noises on your plumbing system. Illustrator ...

Authored by David Stockman via The Daily Reckoning, Here’s a comparison that is surely vertigo inducing. On the one hand, the financial system is implicitly held to be so incredibly stable and healthy that volatility on the S&P 500 has been driven to 50-year lows. Indeed, that lovely condition is apparently expected to persist indefinitely as signaled by implied volatility. ...

Submitted by Fred Reed via The Burning Platform blog, Trump did not cause the deep division in the country. It caused him. There are two very different Americas. I suspect that the half of the country that voted for Trump, that voted with wild enthusiasm, that roared at huge rallies, was not so much voting for Trump as against the other ...